01Undated-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
02UndatedI knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
03UndatedWhy is everything always my decision?" I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-ClaudeLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
04UndatedI will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
05UndatedI looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
06UndatedI tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita BlakeLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
09UndatedYou can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
10UndatedDeath, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
11UndatedThe rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--PeterLaurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
12UndatedHe was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
13UndatedI didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
14UndatedNever trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
15UndatedZebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
16UndatedOne thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
17UndatedCan the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
18UndatedI sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
19UndatedThere had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
20UndatedI just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
21UndatedYou can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
22UndatedI couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.''What kind of dogs?' I asked.He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.''Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.''Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.'I stared at him, and the look on my face seemed to amuse him. He laughed. 'I'm glad you're here, Anita, because I don't know a single other person who I'd have admitted this to.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
23UndatedHe balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said.Laurell K. Hamilton / quote ↗
